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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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Build Supply Chain Resilience with a Diverse Sourcing Strategy 

Logility

Every industry article, news segment, analyst research paper, and boardroom conversation offers varying perspectives on the real issues impacting supply chain performance and the best way to fix them. Developing Diverse, Resilient Sourcing Strateg ies. Feeling overwhelmed? You’re not alone.

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Resource-based Theory vs. Supply Chain Management

SCM Research

There is an ongoing debate in supply chain management research about whether or not resource-based theory suggests that supply chain management can be a source of sustained competitive advantage for a firm. In his insightful article, The competitive advantage of interconnected firms: An extension of the resource-based view (AMR, Vol.

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What Does “Good” Look Like: Strategic Sourcing

ivalua

If you have ever read an article about Procurement best practices, you know that a very small minority of teams are categorized as leaders and an equally small minority are considered laggards. So what does “good” strategic sourcing look like? Good” strategic sourcing…. Doug Keeley, Product Marketing Manager, Ivalua.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

To help you become successful, we have put together 50 online resources that you will definitely find helpful. This article is created to make your life easier and become more productivity. Resources: Data.gov 2. Resource: Google Public Data 3. Resource: Pew Research Center 4. Resource: ArcGIS Open Data 5.

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Supply Chain Management: Daring to Automate

Demand Driven Technologies

Warning 1: this article is not (too) much about artificial intelligence, and not at all about generative artificial intelligence, or LLM. If you’re a fan of shiny stuff that contributes to depleting the planet’s resources by wasting as much energy as possible, you’d better move on! Read more Source

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5 Top resources for launching products into new retail stores

Alloy

We’ve gathered some of our most popular articles and videos, so you can chart your path forward. This article will walk you through the process of forecasting and preparing for business-critical events like product launches and launching / expanding into new retailers and stores. Contact us for a demo today.